E. Wright | Policy & People

Writer | The Homeless Files,
policy, public services & real life.
Finding humour in bureaucracy and hope in difficult places.
Writing as E. Wright.

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

A year ago I couldn’t see a future.
Today I’m writing one.

#TheHomelessFiles #Homelessness #LivedExperience #MentalHealth #Resilience #StartingAgain #Hope
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[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's new Education Secretary is off to a flying start.

[Brodie Mitchell @BrodieMitchell1]

🚨 HUGE WIN: After my open letter, evidence of multiple donations to Hezbollah-linked ‘charities’, and relentless pressure - the Royal Holloway Students’ Union has SUSPENDED the Friends of Palestine Society.

All activity paused while a full investigation is carried out.

This is what happens when one student refuses to stay silent.

I now call on @TerrorismPolice to fully investigate and closely monitor the society’s founding members and current membership. Student money must never fund terror-linked groups.

#RoyalHolloway #Hezbollah #StudentsUnion #CampusSafety

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Absolutely brilliant from @NickFerrariLBC

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Trust is built on competence.
Government departments hold extraordinary amounts of information about every citizen.

#DataProtection #GDPR #DWP #PublicAccountability #UKPolitics

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Government tells us to protect our personal data.

Then sends confidential information to an address I left 8 months earlier.

Wrong address.
Personal information disclosed.
Complaint logged.
But what accountability exists when government breaches our privacy?

New article coming soon.

#DataProtection #GDPR #DWP #PublicAccountability #UKPolitics @DWPgovuk

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

I read the recent article about the Government being unable—or unwilling—to provide comprehensive statistics on crime committed by migrants from #RobertBates - @DailyMail

#PolicyWatch #Government #Transparency #Data #DigitalTransformation #FreedomOfInformation #Taxpayers #PublicSector

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[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Mohamed Abdulraziq dragged a five-year-old girl off the street and sexually assaulted her.

When I referred his sentence to the Government as unduly lenient, the minister disagreed.

That minister - Ellie Reeves - has just been made Attorney General.
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[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

I’m told that of the 80 students who graduated at Exeter university in computer science just two have found jobs as Labour tax policies and AI have killed the market.
Feel desperate for the grads who have given 3 years of their life and £60K to discover they’re unwanted.

[spiked @spikedonline]

‘The people telling us not to “politicise” Ann Widdecombe’s murder are the very same people who immediately blamed Jo Cox’s murder on the Brexit campaign. These are bad-faith actors trying to police our emotions’

Claire Fox on the killing that shook a nation:

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Marco Rubio on Israel:

"Israel's wealth lay not under the ground, but in its people, the Jewish people, who made the desert bloom into a high-tech superpower."

God bless you, @SecRubio 🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Shabana Mahmood has misled Parliament.

She falsely claimed there was an attempted terror attack on an Islamic event and police arrests “undoubtedly saved lives”.

Now the police say they “found no evidence to support anyone being charged with any offences linked to the alleged threat.”

Where is the condemnation from the BBC and media establishment for “speculating”?

Mahmood is a disgrace and must resign.

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

As a fellow Northerner, this one really hurts.

Kevin Keegan wasn't just a footballer. He was a hero to so many of us growing up. Passion, pride, commitment and heart — he gave everything every time he stepped onto the pitch.

Thank you for the memories, the inspiration and the belief that anything was possible.

Rest in peace, Kevin.

You'll be missed. ⚽🖤

#KevinKeegan #Newcastle #football

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[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Risk: Human expires before process completes.
Status: Amber pretending to be Green.

#TheHomelessFiles #Homelessness #LivedExperience #MentalHealth #Resilience #StartingAgain #Hope
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[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Article 6: The Great British Waiting Game.
For 10 months I fought a benefits decision that should never have happened.

The tribunal wasn't won by dramatic legal arguments.

It was won because somebody finally read the documents and applied the law.

The facts had been there all along.

#TheHomelessFiles #DWP #UniversalCredit #Homelessness #Tribunal #HousingCrisis
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[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Britain can't keep governing through history lessons.

Every time the economy struggles, someone blames Thatcher. But Margaret Thatcher left office in 1990.

Since then we've had Conservative governments, New Labour, coalition governments and Conservative governments again. Each inherited challenges. Each made choices.

If the Thatcher model has failed, then the question isn't who's to blame. It's what's the alternative?

1. Which policies should be reversed?
2. How much will it cost?
3. Who will pay?
4. How will success be measured?

Britain doesn't need another political slogan.
It needs a credible, evidence-based economic plan.

Let's have a debate based on facts, not nostalgia.

#UKPolitics #Economy #Labour #Conservatives #Thatcher #PublicPolicy #Taxation #Productivity #Entrepreneurship #EvidenceMatters

[E. Wright | Policy & People @EWrightJournal]

Most journeys begin with one thought:
“There has to be something better than this.”

#TheHomelessFiles #Homelessness #LivedExperience #MentalHealth #Resilience #StartingAgain #Hope
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